There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.